Word Meanings - SHEATHING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

from Sheathe. Inclosing with a sheath; as, the sheathing leaves of grasses; the sheathing stipules of many polygonaceous plants.

Related words: (words related to SHEATHING)

• SHEATHLESS
  Without a sheath or case for covering; unsheathed.
• INCLOSER
  One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.
• SHEATHED
  Invested by a sheath, or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses; vaginate. (more info) 1. Povided with, or inclosed in, sheath.
• INCLOSE
  Etym: 1. To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a town with walls. How many evils have inclosed me round! Milton. 2. To put within a case,
• SHEATHY
  Forming or resembling a sheath or case. Sir T. Browne.
• SHEATH-WINGED
  Having elytra, or wing cases, as a beetle.
• SHEATHFISH
  See SHEATFISH
• SHEATHER
  One who sheathes.
• SHEATHE
  Etym: 1. To put into a sheath, case, or scabbard; to inclose or cover with, or as with, a sheath or case. The leopard . . . keeps the claws of his fore feet turned up from the ground, and sheathed in the skin of his toes. Grew. 'T is in my breast
• INCLOSURE
  1. The act of inclosing; the state of being inclosed, shut up, or encompassed; the separation of land from common ground by a fence. 2. That which is inclosed or placed within something; a thing contained; a space inclosed or fenced up. Within
• SHEATHING
  from Sheathe. Inclosing with a sheath; as, the sheathing leaves of grasses; the sheathing stipules of many polygonaceous plants.
• LEAVES
  pl. of Leaf.
• SHEATHBILL
  Either one of two species of birds composing the genus Chionis, and family Chionidæ, native of the islands of the Antarctic.seas. Note: They are related to the gulls and the plovers, but more nearly to the latter. The base of the bill is covered
• POLYGONACEOUS
  Of or pertaining to a natural order of apetalous plants , of which the knotweeds are the type, and which includes also the docks , the buckwheat, rhubarb, sea grape , and several other genera.
• SHEATH
  OS. skeedhia, D. scheede, G. scheide, OHG. sceida, Sw. skida, Dan. skede, Icel. skeiedhir, pl., and to E. shed, v.t., originally 1. A case for the reception of a sword, hunting knife, or other long and slender instrument; a scabbard.
• UNSHEATHE
  To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword. To unsheathe the sword, to make war.
• INSHEATHE
  To insert as in a sheath; to sheathe. Hughes.
• PARKLEAVES
  A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.
• MISSHEATHED
  Sheathed by mistake; wrongly sheathed; sheathed in a wrong place. Shak.
• DISINCLOSE
  To free from being inclosed.
• DISSHEATHE
  To become unsheathed. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SCHWANN'S SHEATH
  The neurilemma.